Comments on: Microsoft to add multitouch interface to Windows 7

Microsoft says the new technology, which is expected to arrive in late 2009, will work with existing touch screens.

[NowReally]

Looks like a big iPhone to me...

[gump28]

Looks like a GPS to me. Hopfully that means a 1gig cpu and 64mg of ram.

[imbored2]

This technology was around way before the iphone....

[gump28]

Looks like a GPS to me. Hopfully that means a 1GHZ cpu and 64mg of ram.

[cannabisindica]

My wife bought me a MBP and I made the shift. Never used Mac before but let me tell you - never going back now.

[imbored2]

Touch technology has it's places. POS systems, Certain Control Panels and so on. But when it comes to image editing and other things the mouse is the better solution. All I see this doing is cluttering up the operating system and causing performance problems. Microsoft should be stripping the OS down and starting all over again. Windows Vista was more or less the most recent Windows ME. I hope they find a way to stabilize it rather then discouraging everyone by adding stupid features such as this. It is impractical. If someone wants this feature let them add it on at a later time. Also you Linux people are a tad bit annoying. Your systems can't run games they can't run half that stuff that is actually useful in an end user environment and you have to have tons of time to get most things of any use to actually run on the thing. Installing a program on Windows takes like 5 minutes. Installing some programs on Linux takes days. It is rediculously impractical for end user environments. Spit and kick your servers who cares. Your server runs the same hardware as a Windows machine.. of course it is durable and runs fantastic. I don't question that. Not bad for ancient technology that can't keep up with modern times. GUI's are the thing now... 90% of you Linux people come across as arogant and if you want to "convert" Windows users you might want to lower the ego a bit and give users some reasons to use your archaic operating system. Only thing it is good for is well.. being a server. Nothing you can do on Linux cannot be done on Windows in some way or another. And if you can't do it on Windows then you might question if it is really worth trying to do. At least there is support widely available for Windows. Can't say the same for Linux. Macintosh... well mac is it's own world. If you want to live in that bubble it is all you. Mac definately has it's place in the world. But again... application and software support... come on.

[sjaakb]

What a bunch of yahoos....... As a Vista user I am so disgusted by these people. Ready to jump ship. Talk about something new? Why not take care of your customer base that paid you big bucks to "upgrade"....

[Indoubt]

It looks like the whole thing is getting out of hand for Microsoft ? in the first place they don?t know how to advertise or support the best security wise OS they have come up so far (Vista) & now they?ve started spreading all sorts of rumours on the forthcoming Windows 7 while Windows users want to stay with XP forever.
Let?s have a look at hyped up Win 7 - The original promises about a ?mini kernel? have now been dropped & replaced by ?multitouch?. The forthcoming OS won?t be all that new as according to new announcements it will be an evolution of Vista & more likely based on the Win Server 2008 kernel, so... what?s new? The touch screen! How new is this? Are we impressed or what? ? Gates seems to be obsessed with touch screens all of a sudden. Any wall in your house can turn into a touch screen & communicate with your UPnP enabled fridge... alright. Is this what the public wants? Someone?s dreaming with our money.
Vista is turning in to Microsoft?s abandoned child - this is an insult for people for people who bought or are planning to buy the OS - & obviously it?s them who have generated this talk about its successor that we haven?t seen yet & they themselves don?t know what sort of purpose it?s going to serve apart from a sales boost ? is this what tech evolution is all about?
I?m an IT tutor & a trouble shooter. I have been using & teaching Windows for more than a decade & only got a Mac a year ago as a many of my customers have the odd Mac or two on their networks so I needed to have OS X at home for further study ? I?ve got 2 Vista machines, one XP machine & an OS X Leopard machine on my home network. Something tells me that within a couple of years time, I?ll have 3 OS X machines & one Windows machine on the same network - I must say that I am impressed by the way Apple supports its OS in any respect - I don?t care about iHype & all the silliness that goes with it but OS X is great. It?s very light & stable & it?s based on Unix, right? & guess what... no viruses.